Save Article

Answering Havel

Updated June 5, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

In response to your May 14 editorial "Havel's Questions," we would like to mention that Vaclav Havel, whom we deeply respect for his courage for having stood up against communist oppression and whom Russian dissidents called the Czech Andrei Sakharov, had also spoken in the early 90s, repeatedly and quite eloquently of the need for a union of the entire "Helsinki area" -- what Jacques Delors was calling the "Greater Europe" in those days, what James A. Baker III was calling a space "from Vancouver to Vladivostok." Havel said this before the Council of Europe and NATO...